boylike
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Its lure is the image of girls kicking ass, being boylike.
From Time Magazine Archive
Villiers, boylike, tried to ride his pony up the steep bank of a nullah.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
But, boylike, we discounted all she said, and felt we wanted some of this world before we knocked at the gates of the next.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Austin Bidwell
"I think I have stopped them," I answered, turning suddenly shy, though, boylike, I had been longing a few minutes before to talk of my victory.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
He now went to work on this and finished it, and, boylike, thought his fortune was made.
From The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
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